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Ambiguity and context. A quantitative study

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2015

Abstract

General consensus in linguistics is that language context (or co-text) plays crucial role in describing linguistic properties of language items. Isolated units are, as a corollary to this statement, inherently ambiguous (polysemous and/or polyfunctional).

In this paper we describe the most influential forces leading to disambiguation of language units, specifically the role of ngram length on its ambiguity.